Jean-Baptiste Girard

Jean-Baptiste Girard (21 February 1775-27 June 1815) was a general of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Jean-Baptiste Girard was born in Aups in the Kingdom of France on 21 February 1775 and entered the French Revolutionary Army in the summer of 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars. By 1797 he was promoted to captain, having served under General Napoleon Bonaparte in the Army of Italy. In 1800, he led a brigade at Marengo, and was made Brigadier General after the 1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstadt. In 1808 he was made a baron and a year later became General de Division, and was sent to Spain during the Peninsular War. In the 1811 Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos, he was defeated by General Rowland Hill's British Army, and he was wounded at the battle of Berezina in 1812 and the Battle of Lutzen in 1813. In the Hundred Days of 1815, he was made a Count of the Empire by Napoleon and fought at the Battle of Ligny, where he bore the brunt of the fighting and was mortally wounded. He died of his wounds on 27 June 1815.